Ex-wife and daughters of Maradona leave the team after the death...

In the late afternoon of Wednesday (25), about five hours after the death of Diego Armando Maradona, the president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, called Claudia Villafañe, 60, the player’s ex-wife.

He offered Casa Rosada to receive the funeral, and the proposal was accepted. Fernández said that everything would be done according to the will of her and her daughters, Dalma, 33, and Gianinna, 31.

Before that, Juan Román Riquelme, another historic Boca Juniors shirt 10 and vice president of the club, had made the La Bombonera stadium available to the family.

At the request of the three women, the burial ceremony at the Bella Vista cemetery was reserved for only 25 people. Members of what was called Diego’s “surroundings” were removed and were not among them.

This staff, which includes lawyer Matías Morla and doctor Leopoldo Luque, had previously been prevented from entering the condominium where the idol died.

Morla made clear his discomfort with the situation. He said on social media that “the ambulance took more than half an hour to arrive” and accused those who were accompanying Maradona, when he was sick, of having acted very slowly, first calling the condominium doctor and only after contacting the doctor ex-athlete’s staff and an ambulance.

“It was criminal idiocy,” he snapped. Neither Morla nor Luque entered the Casa Rosada for the funeral.

The daughters and ex-wife at first refused to allow the player’s autopsy, but later consented, appointing a trusted expert. The conclusion was chronic heart failure.

In Maradona’s troubled existence, the family was one of his greatest inconsistencies. He said several times that Claudia was the love of his life, but died fighting with her in court over money and real estate. He claimed that Dalma and Gianinna were everything to him, but he saw little of them. Both took the mother’s side in the discussions.

Both attribute the distance to the player’s surroundings. They maintain that they would have liked to have taken charge of their father’s health and agenda, but were prevented. Gianinna says she went to visit him with Benjamín, his son with striker Sergio Agüero, on October 30, Diego’s 60th birthday, but he was only minutes away.

Matías Morla took care of all matters on behalf of Maradona. On the same November 2, when the star was admitted to a clinic in La Plata, his Instagram account published a cigarette advertisement – later erased.

During the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Morla asked for US $ 30 thousand (about R $ 150 thousand in current values) for interviews with the former player, who was in the country under contract with Puma (manufacturer of sports equipment) and Telesur, a multi-state TV network of countries with left-wing governments in South America.

Gianinna and Dalma have returned to using their social networks in the past few days to attack Morla and company, saying that his father had long been used for advertising purposes, commercial purposes and the personal projection of some figures.

After Diego was transferred from La Plata to Buenos Aires to remove a bruise on his head, the daughters sent for another doctor, in addition to Leopoldo Luque, to have a second opinion, showing that they did not fully trust the neurologist. As a result, the operation was delayed by a few hours.

Luque posted a photo next to the patient before he left the hospital on the 11th, breaking a deal to preserve him and infuriating his daughters. Some time later, he apologized and said he had Maradona’s authorization.

The family life of the biggest Argentine shirt 10 was like all the other facets of its existence. Full of comings and goings, loves and breakups. Even after divorcing Claudia in 2003, she continued to take care of various aspects of her ex-husband’s daily life for a period.

Later, he had relationships with Veronica Ojeda, who was at the funeral and burial with his son Dieguito Fernando, and Rocío Oliva, barred at the two ceremonies of the day.

Diego Maradona was buried in the cemetery of Bella Vista, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, to be close to his parents, don Diego and Tota. The two raised their son in the poor neighborhood of Villa Fiorito, in a tile house full of holes, built by his own father. A meat industry worker, he was absent in much of the childhood of the ace because he had to work.

Tota was already the reason for her son’s adoration. She died in 2011, and best friends said he was never the same person after that.